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Evicted

Poverty and Profit in the American City
May 14, 2018scribby rated this title 4.5 out of 5 stars
This reads like a novel, but be warned. It is not the product of the author’s imagination. Made of victim’s stories in Milwaukee (“I feel dirty,” lamented the author, “collecting these stories and hardships like so many trophies.”) it could be about any city in the US. It shows the brokenness of a system that rewards for “cycling through” tenants – and it should kill those political ideas that the poor are lazy and deserve their situation. Many of the people in this book are trying to find work, or are already working two or more full-time jobs. Read this and your assumptions will be challenged, and you will want to help out.